Changing my life on my own two feet

Stuck at home

So, I’ve gotten a really bad stomach bug that just didn’t want to go away. Went to the doctor yesterday after having this thing since Saturday and she tells me that I’m really contagious. Hoping my husband doesn’t get it too. Now I’m stuck at home until it gets through my system. I did go to the gym on Monday morning to walk – didn’t know I was contagious. It felt good to get in some exercise. I might try to walk tonight since the doctor said my antibiotic should have taken effect by then.

I have a sister who is considering lap band procedure because she doesn’t think she can lose weight naturally because of how large she is. Does anyone have any blogs they read or books they have read about women who are well over 300 pounds. I want her to see that she can do this!

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have your sister check out http://www.dietgirl.org, Shauna, who writes it has a book out too, and she is funny as hell and she started over 300 lbs. Also she could check out http://www.pastaqueen.com. Jennette, who writes there wrote the book, Half-Assed about losing half her body weight and started well over 300 lbs.

also, the thing I find is, though no one will tell you this, at the beginning of a diet for a few days, its all about will-power. You have to make it through a few days of a very low bulk diet to help your stomach shrink… it’s like a natural stomach staple operation to me… If I eat small for 2 or three days and go against all diet “wisdom” and just make myself eat 3 small meals of very good satisfying, non-low fat foods, my stomach shrinks and eating big portions just doesn’t feel good anymore. I try to do this every few weeks now, a day where I eat high quality, but low bulk food to help me re-size my stomach, it helps me stay on track. I didn’t start over 300, but I was just over 300 while I was pregnant with both my girls, and I have lost 50 or so pounds after one pregnancy before I got pregnant again and gained it back… that strategy of having low bulk days always seems to work for me to help keep my meals smaller and help me know when I am full….

I guess that’s only sort of related, but I thought I would share it cause my friend Molly calls it “Nora’s natural stomach staple”.

Yes. After I was over it, my husband got it. I think you had said you had a similar experience.

I am doing okay. I’m taking it easy today after pushing myself doing the hardest 5K I’d ever done and then making it to 20,000 steps on my pedometer. The 5K course was up a steep bridge in Clearwater, FL. Never done any climbs really. Florida is so flat generally.